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Courses: Diabetic Care and Foot Management in Rural Areas

Welcome

Welcome to the SEESHA / KARUNYA UNIVERSITY / CHRISTIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF INDIA / SLRTC KARIGIRI / NATIONAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT online course on Diabetic Care and Foot Management in rural Areas.

The aim is to empower and train the rural health care workers in remote areas so they are able to take comprehensive care of the Diabetics in the villages. They will receive extensive training in preventing foot ulcers and managing them when they develop so that amputations could be prevented in rural areas. They would be trained to work with nearby doctors to provide comprehensive care to the diabetic patients in their villages.

The course consists of the online component and several lectures and contact programs for practical training at the SEESHA Karunya community hospital and the various designated outstation clinics of SEESHA.

We would like to begin with sincerely thanking the organizations that are helping us.

1. mdCurrent-India: They are sponsoring and hosting the online course. We thank them for having a separate page for the rural surgery articles at http://mdcurrent.in/camps-and-rural-healthcare/ and publishing many of our articles.
2. SEESHA: SEESHA has the SEESHA Diabetic care center at Karunyanagar where advanced treatment facilities like low cost vacuum therapy for non healing wounds, laser therapy for non healing wounds, etc are available.
3. Karunya University: They provide the certification for the training program and help with the research including many innovative products like non invasive blood sugar testing
4. SITRA & SLRTC Karigiri: These well-known famous institutions of research are providing the necessary help with research in making the modern treatment modalities available to the poor
5. NSDC [National Skills Development council]: This is the Government Organization giving certificate as
   Diabetic Educator and gives a onetime scholarship of Rs. 10000 on completion of the course.

Instructions

1. Enroll in this course by clicking the button above the course list (you must be logged in to mdCurrent-India to enroll. Please enroll as doctor even if you are not a medical doctor so that you can view this page).
2. The first lesson is an overview and does not have the PPT and questions.
3. For each lesson, read the materials and PowerPoint.
4. Go through the materials suggested for further reading.
5. Write your comments and discussion in the mdCurrent web site below the article or notes, so that everyone can benefit.
6. Copy the questions for each lesson to a Word or Excel file, answer them, and send them as an attachment to the following e-mail: drsunithababurao@gmail.com
7. Please contact Mr. Charles Richard for details on the contact program and practical training charlesrichard84@gmail.com
8. There are several levels of certifications. The online course content is free. With practical training and contact programs certifications from the following are available:
   1. SEESHA
   2. KARUNYA UNIVERSITY
   3. CMAI
   4. NSDC [Indian Government as Diabetic Educator]

Either as individual certification or combination and please contact Dr. Sunitha or Mr. Charles for the details.